Facial Aesthetics
Face Aesthetics is associated with the principles related to the beauty of face in large. It represents the treatments related to the short comings of the face. This aspect of concept of beauty is usualy connected with skin cosmetology and cosmetic plastic surgical procedures. In dentistry this requirement is utilised mainly by cosmetic dentists and that too to support smile makeovers that give a face lift to the face. And specifically they help in alleviating your aging problems, give shape to the contours of your face, define the angles and shapes, give glow to your dull skin etc. Thus you can see face aesthetics in cosmetic dentistry as an additional push to the face lift up.
Other than things said above face aesthetics has two other main entities regarding beauty. One is the face proportions and symmetry of face. The third part is the problems related with dento facial aesthetics. The three main marking headers related to facial beauty are:
FACE REJUVENATION
Face aesthetics in another way could be explained as face rejuvenation. Cosmetologists provide face rejuvenation procedures revitalizing your skin and bring back your youthfulness. Cosmetic skin doctors help you with non surgical procedures. But cosmetic plastic surgeons help you with surgical face rejuvenation procedures that are elaborate where you desire a permanent change. To put it in simple terms they go for treatments with lasers, dermal fillers, skin peels, skin tightening techniques, lipolytic injections, neuro muscular toxins(Botox) injections etc. which are skin deep.
But cosmetic dentists are different from these. They give the essentials for face rejuvenation within the limits of dental clinic. Further they can provide a bit of help in face proportions, face symmetry and dento facial aesthetics.
FACE PROPORTIONS AND FACE SYMMETRY
Facial beauty has one major pivot that is relative proportions of facial parts. Golden proportion of nature's unique beauty identity is the key factor that decides the beauty. When the relative parts of face are in golden ratio face tends to appear beautiful.
So also face symmetry is another markeable identity that decides beauty. An imaginary line drawn midway through face with all facial parts including the front teeth and lips imparts beauty to the viewer. In an aesthetic treatment one tries to achieve a symmetrical looking face.
'Rule of thirds' and 'Rule of fifths' are the notable proportional rules that could be applied consistently always in a beautiful face. This will be a guideline for a cosmetologist who do a makeover whether it is a dental makeover specialist or any other cosmetic expert. An example for this is like this. A face can be horizontally divided into equal thirds from the hairline to glabella, from glabellla to subnasale and subnasale to menton. Likewise vertically into 5 divisions which should be equal in most cases.
Face attractiveness does not rely solely on face proportion. other major criteria is the aesthetic values or features that imparts beauty to the face. Few examples are sharp features of pointed nose and bulbous lips etc. The contours, shape and angle also given value to attractiveness.
Golden ratio will be the true figure in terms of proportions of various of facial parts. We could enumerate numerous relative proportions. An attractive face would be defined in terms of various horizontal and vertical measurements. Those measurements could be in golden proportion, where the value is 1:1.618 and which is called phi. Few horizontal and vertical proportions could be stated here as an example.
- Distance between the centre of pupil is golden to bottom width of teeth and bottom width of chin.
- Distance between outer and inner edge width of eye is golden to be the centre of nose to the inner edge of the eye.
Golden proportion could also be located in the smile region or front teeth too. The front two incisor teeth form a golden rectangle, with a phi ratio in the height to the width. The ratio of the width of the first tooth to the second tooth from the center is also phi.
An attractive face with the golden proportions and appealing esthetic features and contours, and symmetrical face has all the principal values in harmony. There is a balance between the facial factors, key facial parts. If there in an imbalance in one of these segments, eg nose zygomatic width, intercanthal width etc, there will be disharmony is the face. The facial attractiveness goes away. So also the smile region in also an integral part of face. All the proportion, symmetry, esthetic features, contours and angles are similar in aspect. If any disruption happens in the beauty concept of the smile region, which includes the front teeth, gum, lips, soft tissues etc. the total harmony of the face will also be disrupted. For example if one tooth goes off the position from normal arch the lip asymmetry and shape will be disrupted. Any unappealing factor of the teeth, namely proclination, overlapping teeth etc. will bring change to the smile line, smile curve, lip volume and the profile of face etc. The gap between the teeth may create a deficiency in the flow and connection between facial features.
DENTO FACIAL AESTHETICS
This part of facial attractiveness is drawing new attention to the field of face aesthetics. The key role of face rejuvenation dentists is changing and. They are getting a big opportunity to give a new dimension to face rejuvenation and face aesthetics.
Smile makeover specialists with a tinge and taste of face cosmetology have more flair in facial beauty based on dento facial aesthetics.
Apart from the facial aesthetic procedures done in the dental clinics there are other less recognized features a dentist also do to improve feature and improve your beauty.
In a dento facial aesthetic work things like lip volume, naso labial fold, face depressions, gummy smile, bone discrepancies in jaw growth, length and width of face in relation to the teeth, jaw line, angle of facial outlines, face contours, other face features to an extend all these things are addressed in a minimum way.
Using the principles of smile makeover in cosmetic dentistry, the orthodontic principles, the orthognathic surgical point of view, and using various orthodontic appliances in support to improve face dimension and proportions are the key techniques applied in this treatment.
You can improve relative growth of upper and lower jaw position from front to back. Face width can be adjusted to an extent with jaw expansion appliance. Vertical height of the lower face can be improved using certain appliances and teeth eruption technique. The jaw width or jaw line width can be adjusted by decreasing pressure to the jaws. The lip volume and ratio can be corrected by Smile Makeovers and improving the vertical dimension and jaw relation. The front concavity of face can be corrected by jaw growth, outward pulling appliance etc.
